“The Democratic National Committee and others poured a lot of money and brought the President in… Big city turnout was a real problem for us across the board,” said Healy.

First-time candidates often lose but Healy said McMahon learned a lesson and got back in the ring.

“She wasn’t discouraged, and just like her life story, you know, she gets up off the ground and comes back again,” he said.

Healy says McMahon’s message is that, when it comes to jobs, Washington just doesn’t get it.

“It’s incapable of getting out to the way the private sector, that we need people who know how to create jobs and understand how investors and working people think to create opportunities for people,” Healy told WCBS 880 Connecticut Bureau Chief Fran Schneidau.

In the months since losing the last election, Linda McMahon has been quietly laying the ground work for this run.